Placebo Fonts
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-shared for four years-
I sometimes despise these eyelids
because they carry over a face
that is never quite right when closed.
And when open allow in feelings of craziness unglued
of that four year face that was only actually,
partially seen for the first three months.
Nicotine fixes the gap
and I know this clinging of static to my skin
came from my clothes
and originated from the empty sheets.
I wanted orgasms to have your name,
but they were never touched when the thought of you came through
and felt at ease when I used them like sleeping pills
when they neglected to nap.
But I don’t follow in their footprints
and don’t know when to begin bracing myself
for another round
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About the Book
Placebo Fonts is Brandon Denham''s freshman collection of poetry. Although Denham''s main theme, emptiness and observing, are present in most of the works, he''s also stretched into detail of simple wants as in "studio comfort," coping with a four year longing of someone, who he later trickily discloses in "goodbye / no hello," in "shared for four years," and reflects on a timeline of a past relationship which ends during the current in "polarity''s last word." At the end, Denham has turned his view of observing in the direction of a short story in "vegans swallow."
What Placebo Fonts is, is an invention of throwing sound alike syllables together in sentences around imaginative verse. And if the last poem in the book, "intro," tells us anything, it''s that there''s more to come.
About the Author
Brandon Denham was born and raised in